Sports Day Practice

Up at our normal times, although I slept unusually late today 9:30 am, I have been feeling real tired these past few days, and hope I am not catching a cold or anything, but when I woke up I felt good. Outside it is warm and clear blue skies. I had a breakfast of toast and coffee and updated all of the blogs. Today at 1:30 pm I have a meeting at Koby's School to practice for the upcoming sports festival on Sunday. This is a very big festival in Japan and is called (Undokai), the kids and us adults will be playing all kinds of games, dancing, performing and I am sure more than I even know about yet.

I will let you all know more about what my role will be as I find out. Also tonight we have Japanese lesson at 5:00 pm, so I have a busy day ahead of me. Today at sports day practice we watched the kids perform a traditional dance, Koby did well as did all of the kids, I will post a video of it when the real thing happens.

After the dance we divided up in teams and threw balls into a basket at the end of a long pole, our team ended up winning. After that we had a relay race of rolling this large ball down a field and around a cone, our team won that race also. After that we played a game where everyone does the bunny hop dance, when the music stops you have to play rock paper scissors with the closest person, whoever looses has to go behind the winner and hold there shoulders and the music starts again with everyone doing the bunny hop. This goes on until there is one large line, and the person in front is the winner, Miu Maskawa in first grade was the winner, she was all smiles.

After practicing sports we went inside the school for a meeting, after the meeting we had about one hour before our Japanese lesson, Maskawa's mom brought us a gift from her ex-husband who lives in Otaru, he got us a gift of different flavors of fish cakes, because we help out Maskawa and her family often, it was very nice and the gift was expensive I am sure, we ate the scallop flavored ones for dinner and they were great.

Japanese lesson went well, but is starting to get difficult, Koby still seems to be doing well, and his knowledge of reading and writing Japanese (Hirigana) amazes me. Evan and myself took the teacher home and stopped by the grocery store and got some milk on the way back, we all had hot baths and ate curry and rice for dinner, Yummy!

Temp: High - 66
Low - 41